QUETTA - Despite lapse of six days after heavy rains followed by devastating floods no rescue effort or relief activity on the part of the government is seen on the ground. People are lying along the highways and upper locations of the rain-battered areas without food, medicines and potable water. ...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has expressed deep grief over loss of precious lives in devastating floods in various parts of Peoples Republic of China. In his letter to his Chinese Counterpart Mr. Wen Jiaboa, the Prime Minister said I was deeply saddened to learn of the devastation and loss ...

WASHINGTON - A senior UN official Thursday condemned the demolition of two refugee homes in occupied East Jerusalem, stressing in particular the trauma caused to Palestinian children forced to witness their homes being destroyed. These condemnable acts have a devastating impact, Barbara Shenstone, ...

LAHORE - The worst-ever floods have diverted the focus of literature as the most of the writers - poets and short story writers - are busy in expressing the miseries of flood affectees in words in form of poems and Ghazals, says a bilingual renowned poetess, Assistant Prof Forman Christian College ...

ISLAMABAD According to a poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan 83 percent Pakistanis believe that the recent floods are more devastating than the earthquake that hit the country in 2005 whereas 12 percent find earthquake to be worse than the latest floods. The recent Gilani Poll was conducted by ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said here Sunday that the losses being caused by seasonal floods are beyond the countrys resources however the government will not leave the flood affected people alone. He said this while talking to the media during his visit to Sukkur Barrage. He said the ...

The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Stephen Smith, announced on Monday that Australia will provide A $5 million in assistance to help the people of Pakistan adversely affected by the devastation and destruction caused by the worst floods to hit Pakistan since 1929. According to ...

The arrests of 10 alleged Russian spies in the U.S. this week may be an attempt to undermine trust between the two countries that glimmered during a recent meeting of their presidents. But still, the arrests are unlikely to have any devastating effect on their warming bilateral relations, most ...

At least 66 people were feared dead Friday after a ferry disaster in Tonga which the prime minister described as "devastating" for the tiny Pacific kingdom. As grieving relatives gathered at the wharf in the capital Nuku'alofa, singing hymns for comfort and expressing anger the ageing vessel was ...